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I thought it said 'Jewellery' too.

How lovely Viv! I've only just spotted that you had two granddaughters and now you have three. Congratulations all round.

That's so sad Jackie. I listen to Dean Robert from Canterbury Cathedral every morning (The Garden Congregation) and he has had to keep all the cathedral birds (chickens, ducks, turkeys, guinea fowl etc.) in large cages due to the avian flu. I wonder how many birds have been lost due to this...

For many years I had a mixing bowl just like this. I don't think it was a family item, maybe got it from a jumble sale. I used it for all sorts of cooking when the family were at home and wine making more recently until it developed a large crack and became crazed. How I miss it though. I now...

Izzy, This looks very much like the key to our church which was built in 1857. I wonder if the door this unlocks is still there or if indeed the building is still standing?

Not sure it's been mentioned before but the name Bandywood always puzzled me until I read the history of New Oscott College. Apparently the students would go up to the woods to play a game of 'bandy' between the trees, hence Bandywoods. It was a particularly vicious team sport akin to hockey but...

You can't wear a hat with a beehive! Our school berets were always attached, flat, to the back of our backcombed heads until we were reprimanded.

I still use my Nan's apple corer which I remember her using when I was little. Mom had it for years and now it's still really useful for making baked apples filled with raisins and brown sugar or honey. Sometimes if the apples are quite hard I have to bash it with a rolling pin to get it through.

I went to the library in Birmingham yesterday and wished I had worn a hat. Unfortunately I don't have the face for a hat but even that being the case I will definitely wear one next time. The winds between the high blocks and the lack of sunshine make it a very cold place. Bring back the hat!

Many thanks Gentlemen, lots to ponder on there.

Thanks Pedro, however, the name appears in 'Erdington Vol II' by Peter Drake and Marian Baxter, and the photo is dated 1925 when the houses were well established so I think it's an an older name. It's purported to be the route of the gipsies from the Onion Fair on their way to Sutton Coldfield...

Thanks Lyn, this may explain the 'waste ground' reference.

Can anyone help with the original route of Gipsy Lane please? The only map I have, pre-cemetery, is a bit fuzzy. I can't tell if what I'm looking at is a track or a stream! It's the 1815 OS one. I'm wondering if it was a track leading up to what is now College Road, crossing what would have...

Mike, I know that the Onion Fair ended up on the Serpentine Ground but I seem to remember that it first went to what was to become Walmer Recreation Ground in Miller Street / St Stephen's Street? Can you recall if this is right?

Pedro, Holy Trinity Catholic Church was on the right of Lichfield Road (same road, different name) going towards Mere Green just before Tamworth Road, close to Bishop Vesey school. I believe the building has been an Indian restaurant and offices since the church moved. It crossed the road during...

I think one of the problems we have is that lots of areas of Birmingham came under Aston Parish in times gone by and it's misleading as now we have the areas which stand alone. I'm plumping for Bordesley.

PS. Just checked my Bartholemew's Atlas and Green Lane Bordesley is quite close to Holy Trinity Camp Hill/Bordesley.

Although the area in Sutton is known as Green Lanes it seems very doubtful to me that this would actually be the area in question. If your relative had been living at the Sutton address he would have been buried at Sutton Parish church (also Holy Trinity). Lots of roads were known as 'green...

Lovely story Carliol, I have a coloured version of your picture. You might like the other photo which shows the shop, kindly posted by a member on another thread.I moved into Blackham Drive (up on the right) in 1969 and I wondered if you remembered the white house which stood a couple of doors...

Thanks Lyn, yes I enjoyed the book too. I hadn't spotted Shellywoos location. Penny